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 METS 3 - PHILLIES 0  There is just something really different about this Mets team; dare we say, even magical.   For the second time in franchise history, the New York Mets pitched a no-hitter. Some 10-years after Johan Santana became the only starting pitcher in Mets history to start and finish a no-hitter, Mets fans witnessed five pitches combine for one on Friday night against the Philadelphia Phillies.   Tyler Megill, Drew Smith, Joely Rodriguez, Seth Lugo, and Edwin Diaz will now be joined at the hip for all time after tossing one of the most memorable games in Mets history. And to think it was not even close to being easy. Not against a Philadelphia team that had whipped the floor with the Colorado Rockies. The Mets needed 159 pitches to get through it all, the most ever thrown for a no-hitter. The previous mark was owned by the Houston Astros who tossed 151 pitches in a combined no-no of the New York Yankees back in 2003 when Houston was still a National Leag...

  The suddenly surging Yankees won their seventh straight game Friday night behind four home runs en route to a 12-2 smack down of the Kansas City Royals. Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Anthony Rizzo, and Gleyber Torres all went deep as the Yankee posted double-digits in runs for the fourth time in this current winning streak.   Stanton and Rizzo both went deep in the first inning as the Yankees built an early 3-0 lead. While the Royals would strike back, scoring a couple of runs to get to within 3-2, Nestor Cortes kept the Royals at bay. The lefty struck out three batters, scattered eight hits over five innings of work for the Bronx Bombers as he lowered his ERA to 1.31. The Yankees put the game away in the later inning, scoring a total of nine runs between the seventh and eighth innings combined. D.J. LaMahieu got it started with a RBI single in the seventh, scoring Isiah-Kiner Falefa to make it a 4-2 ballgame. Judge followed with a mammoth three-run homer to give the Yanks...

 The New York Giants flipped the football world on its head in the NFL draft with the surprise drafting of Oregon star defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux with the fifth overall pick.  Not many had the Giants taking the talented and brash defensive end, who some have questioned his passion for football. Clearly the Giants didn't agree with that sentiment. As ESPN reported after the pick was made, Giants General Manager Joe Schoen traveled to Eugene, Oregon to watch Thibodeaux work out, and the Giants held a Zoom meeting with him this week. They love the kid. He's explosive off the edge --- ranking third in college football in QB pressures --- something the Giants haven't had since they had the likes of Osi Umenyiora, Michael Strahan and Justin Tuck ruling at the Meadowlands.  Thibodeaux told anyone who would listen that he wanted to play in New York, even telling SNY early Thursday that he considers New York a "second home." Now those wishes come to fruition.   He i...

 CELTICS 109 - NETS 103 The Brooklyn Nets are on the brink of elimination, and with it, they are likely on the brink of watching the gamble they made in the summer of 2019 come crashing down. The Nets fell to the Boston Celtics in Game 3 of their first round playoff series by the count of 109-103; Brooklyn now trails that series 3-0. Barring a miraculous comeback, the Nets will face elimination every time they step on the court in this series beginning Monday night in Game 4. Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving had lackluster efforts on Saturday. Both All Stars each scored only 16 points, while combining to go 12-for-28 from the field. Meanwhile, Jayson Tatum, who has been all world already in this series, was unstoppable once again in Game 3, netting 39 points on 13-of-29 shooting, including 4-for-13 from downtown, and 9-for-10 from the free throw line. Jaylen Brown added 23 points in the favor of the Celtics. For Durant and Irving, the Nets run the past two seasons has all been about t...

It was one of the more disturbing and bizarre scenes one could imagine at a baseball stadium. In the moments following the Yankees 6-5 walk-off victory over the Cleveland Guardians, Yankees fans started throwing garbage onto the field in the direction of the Guardians outfielders. Both teams sprinted into the outfield to assist the Guardians players who were drawing the ire of Yankees fans. Even Yankees broadcaster John Sterling called the fans who threw garbage onto the field as "Hooligans," and not "Yankees fans."  Apparently the incident was precipitated earlier in the game after Isiah-Kiner Falefa tied the game on a double, Cleveland right fielder Oscar Mercado pointed at the stands and center fielder Myles Straw scaled the chain-link fence to confront a Yankees fan. Straw later told reporters after the game that Yankees fans are the "classless...worst fanbase on the planet." This is not the first time that Yankees fans have behaved badly in the Bronx....

 It has been a tough couple weeks for streamers of late. The trouble seemed to start with the lackluster rollout of Apple TV+'s MLB coverage, which was decried by fans for either its glitchy interface or the quality of the broadcast teams in general.  Then came the news that Netflix, the streaming giant that really started us all down this path of pay-to-watch content platforms reported a lose of over 200,000 subscribers , creating a sell-off of its once powerful stock tumbling downward to $215 a share. This for a stock that at one point was closing in on $700 a share back in November.  Add that to the whole Disney vs. Ron deSantis controversy down in Florida, and the apparent disgust that NBA legend Jerry West, and others have for the HBO Max series "Winning Time," which is very, very, very loosely based on the Showtime Lakers of the 1980s to the point West's own attorney's are asking for a retraction of his portrayal on the show.  In case you are wondering West ...

 At 11-4 the New York Mets have the most wins in Major League Baseball, even if they trail by percentage points to the LA Dodgers who are 10-3. The Mets have gotten to this point with great starting pitching, and clutch hitting. It also helps to have a veteran manager in Buck Schowalter, who to this point has put his players in positions to excel.  There is a different vibe to this team; it has been apparent from the start. Right from the moment Francisco Lindor got hit by a pitch in Washington the second game of the season, and Showalter led the team out of the dugout in protest -- this has been a team that has been totally cohesive.  Check out this week's vlog for more...